Al Jazeera further claimed on their TV news broadcast that it appeared that after the fighting some men were randomly taken and executed along a street outside a police station. The city name was not given. One of the men executed was a Muslim community leader who had apparently worked to stop violence between the government and Boko Haram.

Boko Haram is an Islamic Nigerian group that is alleged to have been one of the causes of religious violence in northern Nigeria over the past several years.